Pinyon Jays blowing in the wind at Ken Caryl, JeffCo

[David Suddjian]

This afternoon I was rooting for the strong south winds to conveniently move the piles of newly fallen leaves from my yard over to my neighbor's yard. And the winds were doing a great job of this, but the problem was that new leaves kept blowing in from the other neighbor's yard. Meanwhile, on the upside with no downside I had two Pinyon Jays fly by with a tail wind, moving north close to my Ken Caryl home. I heard their quavery yodel call from two voices, then I saw one jay as it went north. This was new for my home area. I've only had one other Pinyon Jay in the Ken Caryl Valley area over nine years of residence.

David Suddjian

Ken Caryl Valley

Littleton, CO